For years, Venezuela has been a grim testament to what happens when socialism takes over: broken hospitals, rampant crime, mass emigration, and the unpunished proliferation of drug trafficking through a regime that weaponizes misery against its own people and the world to profit and remain in power. 

I know this because I lived it. I escaped a country hollowed out by socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

When I woke up to the news that President Trump had ordered an operation that successfully captured Maduro and his criminal wife to face their existing indictment in the United States, I honestly couldn’t believe it.

I was shaking because of the happiness of the moment, one I had been waiting for my entire life.

My elation at Maduro’s........

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